List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

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Now on desktop, using bookmarks, or a client like TweetDeck this is a valid solution.

There is no "official" way to disable these annoying entries in your feed, but over time people have found secret "tags" that if you put in your mute list, will achieve what you want.

This here is a list of all those available tags. There's no real description of what "kinds" of tweets each block other than the vague name though.

My only complaint is the autorefresh. Sometimes I'm reading something and boom the feed is refreshed and I have to scroll down to find the thing I was interested in. This has also happened when I was about to click on something. so annoying.

Now of course, I'm not special, I shouldn't expect it WOULD be aligned with what I consider good curation. But I can't imagine the choices they ARE making are anywhere near the mean users preference. So lots of people reject that curation and choose to curate for themselves as if it was an RSS feed.

But I think the thing that these people (and I count myself among them) really want is for companies like twitter and youtube to let us make our own choices about curation.

"I really like this person and want to see everything they release."

"I like this persons tastes and want their feed added to mine"

"This person isn't that interesting, just show me stuff they make that gets popular"

"I only want to see tweets from this person about certain subjects. I don't care about their views on woodworking."

ect.

That's one way to look at it. The other way to look at it is as a strong signal that you're not already invested in a competing service so acquisition should be much cheaper.

* Bad Twitter: is run by Twitter Inc. and tries everything to mess with your feed, turning it into a toxic mess that's designed to clickbait and outrage you. It is disrespectful and domineering in the way the UI is designed and every now and then it slaps you around by introducing a change in the UI that increases the noise in your feed.

* Good Twitter: this is the amazing people you know and don't know who use the social network to connect, create and have fun. It's creative af and makes it easy to discover new minds all around the planet. It's also very kind in that people will try to uplift each other and offer support in more ways I can recall.

Things like that appear in a separate column, which you can hide.

In my experience, the vast majority are time-limited movie accounts.

Basically, you make an eventlistener on the scroll wheel and do document.getElementsByClassName('promoted-css-class-name'). Loop over the array of elements found and set the element style to 'display:none' for every element found every time you scroll.

Not the most efficient approach, but effective!

The change I've made is that I set the display of the promoted tweets to none, rather than setting their opacity to 0: article.setAttribute('style', 'display: none');

xclip -out -selection clipboard | while read word; do <the curl command>; done

Then you can probably do the whole list at once.

There is probably also a javascript way to automate this, but if they do it with ajax, this might be faster. Since I do this sort of automation regularly, I aliased the clipboard pasting to "c-v"[1] and so it's quite easy for me to do this sort of thing quickly without having to remember the exact flags and type all of that.

[1] .bashrc addition: alias c-v='xclip -out -selection clipboard'

But I still spend way too much time saying “see less often” to things. Hopefully this mute list works well!

Also available in the app in settings. You need to add each word one at a time.